That's OK, they'll just add a surcharge to music that they sell and pass on the cost to the consumer. It's easy to be stupid when you don't have to pay.
So it's big? Do you ask every random person in the street for the best place in town to buy comics? You look for people who are likely to be clued in and see where they hang out, or where they recommend. You'll also get a very differnt answer if you ask a BDSM mistress for a "rack" than if you ask a geek (well, most of the time...).
You just need to make sure the web has these same cues and communities built into it.
Or multi-user Sims where you could put your Sims into a virtural city with everyone else on the 'net, the town(s) could be adminstered by Net SimCity players for authentically perplexing weird town planning and I could set my Sims up as a street gang, taking whitegoods from Sims everywhere...
BaseCorp will immediately go out and buy up BaseCorp.pro, BaseCorp.foo, BaseCorp.bar BaseCorp.gar and BaseCorp.ply.
Some unfortunate soul peddling a computer game about a corps of BASE jumping ninjas (called BASECorp) manages to get basecorp.game. When BaseCorp finds out, they set their lawyers on them since BaseCorp has a games division. Unfortunate Soul is labelled a domain squatter and loses the domain.
By the end of the year, each large company owns a raft of domains under a pile of TLDs and we have run out of domains again. There's a boom in domain name disputes.
Yeah yeah, it's all been thought out and it's not going to happen. But I have faith in the persistance of lawyers. Try registering anyhting matching *sun*.com http://www.sunrk.com.au/srk_legal.html
Make your own pseudo satellite (hell, you can *buy* them) and cause every apppliance in the neighbourhood to break by convincing all the appliances that you are in downtown Zambolutu.
Watch people trying to program VCRs now displaying in other languages...:o)
It's also possible to build a transmitter that does DoS attackes (jams) the real GPS satellites, look in last year's New Scientist for how to do that. Damn funny if they refuse to work unless they can see GPS.
This is directly equivalent to maps. Just because you put a road down on a map does not mean you own the road. It also means you are not entitled to scan and sell commercially prepared street directories just because they depict public streets. This AFAIK also holds true for all those gene maps, it's far more reasonable to copyright your map of the human genome than to claim you own it by virtue of mapping it.
Tangent:
Google could seed the archive with markers (same as how map companies put minor errors in their maps) in order to demostrate a copied archive came from their investment.
Not quite true, as I played with C= 64's and Apple ]['s as well, but nothing caught my imagination quite like the Xenix system that ran the library.
In my position now, I don't think I'd ever let students have as much access to the system as we did (the only reason we had so much access was because the guy in charge of it was a librarian and was happy to have *anyone* who knew how this stuff worked). Even our edited man pages would be reason enough not to let students have too much access. <evil grin>
I wouldn't automatically give anyone access, but people who show a genuine interest in doing this kind of thing can be an invaluable resource. I'd suggest letting people prove themselves on non-critical or volunteer stuff (my friend is his dorm's ISP) first.
Damn that was funny. A sub-critical length inside each of his pens so that it took 2-3 pens in his pocket before the detector went off. Now how long do you think it was before he dis-assembled his pens??
<i>"With eBay's advanced voting error correction technologies, I can confidantly say that we will never again see the kind of shambles we got in Florida when amateurs were allowed to mess with electing government."</i>
While Linux SMP has made leaps and bounds recently, it is still a newcomer compared to the established UNIX vendors when it comes to big SMP boxen. Linux will eventually do this too, but for now the established vendors are the safest bet.
Of course, I'd be very keen to boot 2.4 on our 16 CPU machine and see how well it performs in comparison.:)
If they (communist|terrorist|criminal) really wanted it, they would have paid off someone inside MS to steal a copy and you would have never heard about it. In fact, if it ever was going to happen, I'd guess it happened a long time ago.
Stand by for some "prove you are innocent" lawsuits once the public memory does goldfish() on this incident.
Have one machine in each room with a floppy drive. Have no applications on it at all so people can only use it to copy files.
Remove all the floppy drives and hide them somewhere. Take them to a "trash and treasure" stall and use the proceeds to buy a Zip drive for each floppy machine.
Did you know it took me over a year to realise my Sparc5 didn't have a floppy drive?
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Stainless Steel rat anyone? (thumb speaker)
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In one of the Stainless Steel Rat books, Harry Harrison describes a phone where the speaker is on the tip of the thumb while the microphone is on the tip of the little finger. Go on, try it. Then imagine a whole room of people talking on their "pretend" telephones.
The paper describes components of a metadata system that uses middleware to combine an X11 UI with distributed databases. Was started in 1989 and I came across it in 1993 when it was well established and indeed in decline (the X11 client at any rate).
Yes! Use Mindstorms to build your own Turtle
and then drive it using Logo. Put Van Halen on the stereo and pretend it is 1985. Maybe even dig out an Apple ][ as I'm sure it has enough CPU for the job.
Reminds me about an interview with Jeff Minter I read once. As I recall he was esposing gameplay over shovelling on lots of slickness. http://www.arrgh.co.uk/people/llama.html I still think Paradroid is one of the coolest game sever written (sorry, never grokked Llamatron even though I though Jeff was cool)
Remember, this is watermarking, not encryption. So someone from a hotmail account releases a SDMI watermarked work. Just WTF are you going to sue anyway? wAreZdUUd3z@hotmail.com?
A watermark is useless unless it points to a pirate.
And if the watermark bugs you, why not just nuke it. Run a diff on two versions and discard any differences. Even if you have to do it downstream of a SDMI sanctioned player.
The patent office announced today that the term "Corinthians" had been patented by the Corinthians soccer team as their exhaustive searching had revealed the term to be a new and innovative one. The patent office dismissed claims that the term "Corinthians" was bloody obvious. Residents of Corinth were not available for comment as they are meeting with the residents of Champaigne and Burgundy to discuss trademarking their town name, they have previously cited a reference in an ancient theological journal as prior art.
We discussed this some months ago and decided that it is damn lucky that no truely talented software authors have put their hand to writing virii. And that most virus authors have publicity closer to mind than virus longevity. By looking at virus ecology (there's a large body of literature on propagation strategies) and design, you could get results far more scary than anything we have seen so far.
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And a one line sed file strips it out anyway.
That's the problem with open source.
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That's OK, they'll just add a surcharge to music that they sell and pass on the cost to the consumer. It's easy to be stupid when you don't have to pay.
Xix.
So it's big? Do you ask every random person in the street for the best place in town to buy comics? You look for people who are likely to be clued in and see where they hang out, or where they recommend. You'll also get a very differnt answer if you ask a BDSM mistress for a "rack" than if you ask a geek (well, most of the time...).
You just need to make sure the web has these same cues and communities built into it.
Xix.
Or multi-user Sims where you could put your Sims into a virtural city with everyone else on the 'net, the town(s) could be adminstered by Net SimCity players for authentically perplexing weird town planning and I could set my Sims up as a street gang, taking whitegoods from Sims everywhere...
Xix.
I keep a seperate card specifically for online transactions. It has a woefully small credit limit so I'll never be out by more than I can afford.
Xix.
Some unfortunate soul peddling a computer game about a corps of BASE jumping ninjas (called BASECorp) manages to get basecorp.game. When BaseCorp finds out, they set their lawyers on them since BaseCorp has a games division. Unfortunate Soul is labelled a domain squatter and loses the domain.
By the end of the year, each large company owns a raft of domains under a pile of TLDs and we have run out of domains again. There's a boom in domain name disputes.
Yeah yeah, it's all been thought out and it's not going to happen. But I have faith in the persistance of lawyers. Try registering anyhting matching *sun*.com http://www.sunrk.com.au/srk_legal.html
Xix.
Is is a coincidence, or do these guys have any connection to the company who made replacement MoBos for the A1000?
Xix.
Make your own pseudo satellite (hell, you can *buy* them) and cause every apppliance in the neighbourhood to break by convincing all the appliances that you are in downtown Zambolutu.
:o)
Watch people trying to program VCRs now displaying in other languages...
It's also possible to build a transmitter that does DoS attackes (jams) the real GPS satellites, look in last year's New Scientist for how to do that. Damn funny if they refuse to work unless they can see GPS.
Xixx.
This is directly equivalent to maps. Just because you put a road down on a map does not mean you own the road. It also means you are not entitled to scan and sell commercially prepared street directories just because they depict public streets. This AFAIK also holds true for all those gene maps, it's far more reasonable to copyright your map of the human genome than to claim you own it by virtue of mapping it.
Tangent:
Google could seed the archive with markers (same as how map companies put minor errors in their maps) in order to demostrate a copied archive came from their investment.
Xix.
Not quite true, as I played with C= 64's and Apple ]['s as well, but nothing caught my imagination quite like the Xenix system that ran the library.
In my position now, I don't think I'd ever let students have as much access to the system as we did (the only reason we had so much access was because the guy in charge of it was a librarian and was happy to have *anyone* who knew how this stuff worked). Even our edited man pages would be reason enough not to let students have too much access. <evil grin>
I wouldn't automatically give anyone access, but people who show a genuine interest in doing this kind of thing can be an invaluable resource. I'd suggest letting people prove themselves on non-critical or volunteer stuff (my friend is his dorm's ISP) first.
Xix.
There never was any USSR. The whole thing was engineered as a ploy to exert control over the US population after WWII.
Oh, and there are only 26 people on the planet, all the rest are holograms to keep you from discovering the other 25.
I know this because Elvis told me.
Xix.
Damn that was funny. A sub-critical length inside each of his pens so that it took 2-3 pens in his pocket before the detector went off. Now how long do you think it was before he dis-assembled his pens??
X.
We were taking bets on how long before script grabbed the first post. You suck you're so slow, I owe my roomie a beer now. :-p
A spokesman was reported to have said,
<i>"With eBay's advanced voting error correction technologies, I can confidantly say that we will never again see the kind of shambles we got in Florida when amateurs were allowed to mess with electing government."</i>
Xix.
While Linux SMP has made leaps and bounds recently, it is still a newcomer compared to the established UNIX vendors when it comes to big SMP boxen. Linux will eventually do this too, but for now the established vendors are the safest bet.
:)
Of course, I'd be very keen to boot 2.4 on our 16 CPU machine and see how well it performs in comparison.
Xix.
> Maybe a splinter group (or is there one out there?)
> should focus on adapting Linux to the common person
You mean like MacOS X? OK, so it's BSD, but functionally there's not a whole lot of difference, especially once it's hidden under the Mac UI.
X.
If they (communist|terrorist|criminal) really wanted it, they would have paid off someone inside MS to steal a copy and you would have never heard about it. In fact, if it ever was going to happen, I'd guess it happened a long time ago.
Stand by for some "prove you are innocent" lawsuits once the public memory does goldfish() on this incident.
X.
Have one machine in each room with a floppy drive. Have no applications on it at all so people can only use it to copy files.
Remove all the floppy drives and hide them somewhere. Take them to a "trash and treasure" stall and use the proceeds to buy a Zip drive for each floppy machine.
Did you know it took me over a year to realise my Sparc5 didn't have a floppy drive?
X.
In one of the Stainless Steel Rat books, Harry Harrison describes a phone where the speaker is on the tip of the thumb while the microphone is on the tip of the little finger. Go on, try it. Then imagine a whole room of people talking on their "pretend" telephones.
X.
http://www.computer.org/proceedings/meta97/papers/ pshelley/pshelley.html
O NL46.html
The paper describes components of a metadata system that uses middleware to combine an X11 UI with distributed databases. Was started in 1989 and I came across it in 1993 when it was well established and indeed in decline (the X11 client at any rate).
Also:
http://www.anu.edu.au/CNASI/pubs/OnDisc95/docs/
X.
Yes! Use Mindstorms to build your own Turtle
and then drive it using Logo. Put Van Halen on the stereo and pretend it is 1985. Maybe even dig out an Apple ][ as I'm sure it has enough CPU for the job.
to square
repeat 4 [forward 50 right 90]
end
square
pen up
forward 100
pen down
square
...
I am having the most intense deja-vu...
X.
Reminds me about an interview with Jeff Minter I read once. As I recall he was esposing gameplay over shovelling on lots of slickness.
http://www.arrgh.co.uk/people/llama.html
I still think Paradroid is one of the coolest game sever written (sorry, never grokked Llamatron even though I though Jeff was cool)
Remember, this is watermarking, not encryption. So someone from a hotmail account releases a SDMI watermarked work. Just WTF are you going to sue anyway? wAreZdUUd3z@hotmail.com?
A watermark is useless unless it points to a pirate.
And if the watermark bugs you, why not just nuke it. Run a diff on two versions and discard any differences. Even if you have to do it downstream of a SDMI sanctioned player.
X.
The patent office announced today that the term "Corinthians" had been patented by the Corinthians soccer team as their exhaustive searching had revealed the term to be a new and innovative one. The patent office dismissed claims that the term "Corinthians" was bloody obvious. Residents of Corinth were not available for comment as they are meeting with the residents of Champaigne and Burgundy to discuss trademarking their town name, they have previously cited a reference in an ancient theological journal as prior art.
We discussed this some months ago and decided that it is damn lucky that no truely talented software authors have put their hand to writing virii. And that most virus authors have publicity closer to mind than virus longevity. By looking at virus ecology (there's a large body of literature on propagation strategies) and design, you could get results far more scary than anything we have seen so far.
X.